Where is it exactly:
Aemtlerstrasse 151, 8003 Zürich

How do you get there:
Bus Nr. 33 stops in front of the cemetery entrance

Why is it so special for you:
When I was living in Zurich, the cemetery became my sunday promenade space.
I used to meet a very good friend there and together we would wander through the narrow paths reading the names on the stones and figuring out the persons behind them and their past lives.
Impressed by the opulence of some gravestones and touched by the gravesite decorations, we got lost in this silence, in the middle of town.

Beware not to get lost too much! You’ll find yourself caged within the premises of the cemetery, and suddenly the silence loses its calming effect …

Last weekend we received three new contributions for “the wishing table” by photographers, who have already contributed to “identity sucks“.
See Fabien Seguin’s, Ditz Fejer’s and Jacob Koestler’s work.

The site started in the end 2008 to feature each month specific works from international photographers.

Have a look!

Where people create real value.
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Where charity is implicit.
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Where our work life is our life’s work.

TBD is a free newsletter that delivers one world-shaking idea and one collective action to improve our future. Each week, they will bring you one mind-blowing project and one simple thing you can do to determine a better future.
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To see his contributions from Quito and Buenos Aires please klick here.

The son of Kenyan journalist Mohamed Amin, Salim Amin wanted to take on a different challenge – making African voices telling African news available to the world. In 2007 he launched the first pan-African news network. Amin sees the project as “stepping out of the shadow” of his father while also honouring his ideals.

“His entire life he wanted to see Africans telling their own stories. He did not want to see foreign correspondents on this continent, and he worked with enough of them,” Amin says.

His new project is A24 Media – a 24-hour news channel about Africa, covered by Africans. This is a lesson Salim took for his father – Africa must be covered by Africans.

http://www.a24media.com

Please also have a look at the photography site of A24 Media.

http://photography.a24media.com

Preface to DES.200 Class Project
As an instructor teaching in the School of Architecture and Design at The American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates I have always looked for international collaboration that allows our students work to evoke dialog and be viewed across boundaries. This stems from my primary interest of studying and documenting the cultural identity of a cityscape which includes its people, social, public and commercial art, music and architecture, looking at visual language and forms of communications that brings communities and cultures together or sets them apart. A unique sensitivity to indigenous subcultures and exploration of the most common elements from daily lives often misunderstood, misinterpreted, or simply miss-communicated can be a source of fascination and an opportunity for creativity to me.

If you ask me what my life goal is it would be what I quoted on a poster that I designed in 2003 “… the grace of great things” by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rodin.

It’s a nice online magazine with a lot of inspiring content!

I just read some interesting interviews with three bloggers. Charlotte from Manystuff.org, Will from Itsnicethat.com and Jeff from Booooooom.com are telling about their ambitions to start a blog and how the blogs developed from the start.

Read the interviews here!

This morning we also received a new contribution from Belgium.
Marjon van Tongeren is a dutch painter who lives in Antwerp, Belgium.
See the portrait and answers of Maarten here.